Most of the 76 cases recorded occurred over the past two weeks, said Health Minister Malik Abdallah Juma.
"We have had no deaths so far, and we managed to treat 62 children; the remaining 14 are still in hospital under close [observation] by doctors,” he said.
Abdulhamid Ameir Salum, the manager of Zanzibar's Expanded Programme on Immunization, said the outbreak was partly due to delays in vaccine delivery caused by high global demand as well as to parents’ reluctance to bring their children to health centres for immunization.
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